Last spring, Pleiades published “Jordan,” a short story about trauma and transcendence, about desire, and deliverance, and the writer Brandon Allen's own reckoning with the fundamentalist religion that raised him. The story begins eerily with the main character, a...
Novelist Patrick deWitt feels like an anomaly. At a time when writers are expected to maintain a constant public presence, to explain their work, promote themselves, and remain perpetually available, the relative lack of access to one of our most celebrated writers...
Kristen Millares Young went looking for God and found a woman, found a goddess, found herself. She went looking for new stories about girlhood, motherhood, womanhood and found an origin story, her own but also that very first story of that very first woman. No, a...
I first met Mansi Dahal in a graduate class dedicated to writing the body. It was a fitting introduction — while our work varies in topic, theme, and form, we share a habit of writing about sensory intimacies, small tactile details that reverberate across the psyche....
Osasere Ewansiha: How was the writing process of Dancing Between the Raindrops different from your novel, The Talking Drum, or other works? Lisa Braxton: I wasn’t working on a full narrative. I was not attempting to write like I did in fiction, (like my novel) a story...
Rey M. Rodríguez An Interview with Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso was born to Mexican immigrants in the Ysleta neighborhood of El Paso, Texas. The family lived in a colonia near the border in a house that Troncoso's parents built, without electricity or running water...
By Brandi White Vines, A. Lures: Poems. Louisiana State University Press. 2022. $17.95. One of the first things the reader will notice about Adam Vines’s latest collection of poetry, Lures, is the tranquil cover image of a broken-down fishing pole propped up...
Author of Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter or Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances by William Trowbridge William Trowbridge: It has been nearly 16 years between your previous collection of poems The Republic of Self and Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter. Why...
Writer's Spotlight with Brian Clifton by: Christopher Eithun Brian Clifton co-edits Bear Review. His poems can be found in: Whiskey Island, Pleiades, Southeast Review, CutBank, Portland Review, The Pinch, and other magazines. He holds an MFA in creative writing from...